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Why Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Philosophy Resonates Today 0
- Philosophy
- March 10, 2017
Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy, particularly relevant today, is her political activism, a viewpoint that follows directly from her metaphysical stance on the self, namely that we have no fixed essences. The existential maxim ‘existence precedes
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Why Americans Pay Triple the World Price for Sugar 0
- Culture
- March 10, 2017
Washington is once again massively screwing up the American sugar market. Because American farmers cannot compete with foreign sugar growers, the federal government has maintained an array of sugar import quotas and/or tariffs for most of the last 200 years. The regulatory regime has provided windfalls for generations of politicians and jobs for legions of
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Berkeley Removes 20k Online Videos to Comply with Nutty DOJ Order 0
- Education
- March 10, 2017
Thanks to a demand from the Justice Department last year, the public will soon lose access to thousands of college lectures. Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of California, Berkeley will “cut off public access to tens of thousands of video lectures and podcasts in response to a U.S. Justice Department order that it make
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Mother Scolded by School for Slice of Cake in Child’s Lunch 16
- Culture
- March 10, 2017
My parents always took the teacher’s side. I grew up attending public schools in the Chicagoland area and I can count on two fingers the number of times (out of hundreds of opportunities) that my Mom and Dad thought a teacher had gone too far. Today, by contrast, teachers routinely face obnoxious, know-it-all parents who
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Reminder: Human Beings More Special Than Other Animals 0
- Philosophy
- March 10, 2017
Should human beings be treated differently than other animals? For most of history, it’s been a widely-held belief that human beings are worthy of special treatment. This belief provides the foundation for the idea of morality, and is the underlying principle behind human rights. As British philosopher Roger Scruton pointed out earlier this week in
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Ohio Woman Pleads Guilty to 14 Counts of Voter Fraud 0
- Politics
- March 10, 2017
An Ohio woman was sentenced to 180 days in jail this week after she was found guilty of registering dead people to vote. Via WKBN First News out of Ohio: Rebecca Hammonds registered voters in Columbiana County between September and October of 2015 when the crimes occurred. The local Board of Elections first discovered the
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